Trump’s anti-Semitic comments have a history in Zionism

Trump’s anti-Semitic comments have a history in Zionism

US President Donald Trump added to his repertoire of racist comments this week, by making his latest, most openly anti-Semitic remark yet.

“Any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat – I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty,” he said.

He later clarified that this “disloyalty” he claimed US Jews are guilty of is towards Israel. But it is hard to escape the feeling that Trump was actually accusing American Jews of being disloyal to the US – and to him.

Either way, his comments were disgustingly anti-Semitic.

Unlike British Jews, a substantial majority of whom vote Tory, American Jews overwhelmingly vote for the Democrats. A whopping 79 per cent of American Jewish voters opted for the Democrats in last year’s mid-term elections.